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7. I've always said the same thing, many times on this board. He should have stuck to domestic . . .

Sun Jun 14, 2015, 05:24 AM

Jun 2015

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revelations about spying on US citizens.

I was okay with that as we don't need our own government spying on us. If he had actually read the files and released only those dealing with domestic spying issues he would have been the hero he wanted to be so bad.

But he took so much stuff that he didn't even know what was in them — that's reckless and irresponsible to the extreme. A then 29-year-old low level IT guy is not the one I want making that kind of decision.

Then flees to China then Russia. How naive does Snowden and Greenwald think people are? Of course the Chinese and Russians extracted a price for giving him asylum. We're supposed to believe that they didn't copy the files.

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Britain Pulls Out Spies As Russia, China Crack Snowden Files - Report [View all] Purveyor Jun 2015 OP

I guess they are just better at decryption than we are. bemildred Jun 2015 #1

How did Snowden who worked for a private contractor and not for the CIA, and whose task JDPriestly Jun 2015 #2

It is butt-covering for the repeated hacks of the government's personnel databases. bemildred Jun 2015 #3

Five Reasons the MI6 Story is a Lie bemildred Jun 2015 #6

Thanks. Everybody should read that entire article. JDPriestly Jun 2015 #16

well acording to wikipedia Egnever Jun 2015 #4

I've always said the same thing, many times on this board. He should have stuck to domestic . . . brush Jun 2015 #7

Apparently Egnever Jun 2015 #12

You'd be surprised how much they give to private contractors JonLP24 Jun 2015 #23

You need to read the article that bemildred quotes: JDPriestly Jun 2015 #18

Chinese hack of federal personnel files included security-clearance database bemildred Jun 2015 #5

Um Egnever Jun 2015 #8

It's a mystery all right. bemildred Jun 2015 #10

I am only pointing out your inconsistencies in posting both Egnever Jun 2015 #11

You type "rebutal" and you want me to engage about "inconsistencies" in language in bemildred Jun 2015 #13

I heard that the hack, the recent one, was of files of records completed by people who JDPriestly Jun 2015 #19

Yes. That's it. nt bemildred Jun 2015 #20

Hack affected every single federal employee, union says bemildred Jun 2015 #9

Those who link these hacks to Snowden need to explain why and how his revelations JDPriestly Jun 2015 #14

Oh I quite agree. This is incompetence of a very high order here. nt bemildred Jun 2015 #17

Ahhh . . . encrytion can always be broken brush Jun 2015 #21

Naive? Nobody gave him asylum, especially not China JonLP24 Jun 2015 #26

You don't call his stay in Russia asylum? brush Jun 2015 #31

One thing about hacks JonLP24 Jun 2015 #24

Questions About The Sunday Times Snowden Story Ichingcarpenter Jun 2015 #15

Good points about the journalistic standards or lack of them. randome Jun 2015 #27

Good post malaise Jun 2015 #30

Sony hack, Target hack, White House hack, Pentagon hack . . . ucrdem Jun 2015 #22

Booze Allen was hacked in 2011 JonLP24 Jun 2015 #25

Seems to me our side is just incompetent. Pholus Jun 2015 #28

Lol I bet they did newfie11 Jun 2015 #29